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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Topraj Gurung, Redwood City, CA (US);
Joshua James Ketellapper, San Francisco, CA (US);
Edward Young Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A user of a user device with a first account with an online service selects a contact to invite to join the online service. A server receives the selected contact to invite from the user device, and in response to receiving the selected contact, generates a second account for the selected contact. The second account includes a plurality of fields, one or more of which are populated with contact information of the selected contact. A link to the second account is generated and provided in an invitation for the selected contact to activate the second account with the online service.